http://www.aumctustin.org/blog Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:10:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had a great experience last night with the youth of our church.  I was invited to join the United Methodist Youth Fellowship for a "Meet the New Pastor" program.  The first part of the program was set aside for the youth to ask me questions on any topic. Our youth directors, Scott ... http://www.aumctustin.org/blog/?p=22 I've been working a lot this past week on plans for our 50th Anniversary celebration here at Aldersgate UMC, especially on the worship service to be held on October 18th at 10:30 am.   It's going to be quite a celebration - trumpets, handbells, choirs, dancers, and more.  Bishop Mary Ann  Swenson will ... http://www.aumctustin.org/blog/?p=16 One of my English teachers from high school taught me that the most important sentence of any literary work is the first sentence.  That puts a lot of pressure on the writer and I am experiencing that myself with this first post.  So I decided to go with something that seems to have worked ... http://www.aumctustin.org/blog/?p=12